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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Many of you already know SocialWrkr24/7's popular blog Eyes Opened Wider, journaling her life as a social worker. She has a heart for God and the children on her caseload. I wish we had more workers like her in our county. No joke. To many, she is the voice for the children, to me she is a wonderful friend and supporter..

It's time to return the favor.

The Sunday before Thankgiving, she went in to the ER with stomach pains. Diagnosis? Cancer. Life flipped upside down in an instant... sadly a feeling many of us can relate to. I asked her what we all could do. She said, "Please pray" ... I've vowed to pray her through this and I hope you do, as well.

Please visit her blog, leave comments and, most importantly, pray. I know how much the support our awesome community has meant to me (and continues to do so). Let's lift up our wonderful friend and walk beside her.

Kiddo, you know how much I love you. You are in my daily thoughts and prayers. Hang in there .. and never forget, we're here for you!

An ongoing tale of our most excellent (and terrifying) adventure yet.. adoption via foster care. This is a journey Darling Husband and I started with Nantie ("Nanny-Auntie" - a blessing from above) in 2007. Although she moved in 2010, we miss her dearly and so appreciate all she did while here.

We also have a herd of rescued canines, fear the Lord and laugh a lot.

August, 2011: Seven amazing placements and a week after we were told LittleBuddy and SweetPea were available for us to adopt, my husband passed away unexpectedly. April, 2012: I had the honor of adopting my darling 7 year old son (Little Buddy) and 3 1/2 year old sister (SweetPea). I awoke the following day a 40something, widowed single mommy... and couldn't of been happier.

In 1999, a year after my own mother passed away I found out I, myself, was an adopted county baby. Life has some ironic twists but we all seem to comeFull Circle